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Business update: John Boehner questions Senate unemployment deal
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner said Friday he thinks a bipartisan Senate deal to renew expired benefits for the long-term unemployed isn't feasible, a remark that suggested the agreement is in trouble in the Republican-run House.
Asked Friday by The Associated Press what he thought of the Senate compromise, he said, "You mean the one that can't be implemented?"
Asked if his comment meant he didn't like the measure or that he wouldn't bring it to the House floor for debate, Boehner, R-Ohio, said, "I didn't say that."
An aide to the speaker later said that Boehner believes making the jobless benefits retroactive to when that program expired in late December, which the Senate deal would do, isn't workable.
Boehner is also unhappy that the Senate proposal lacks provisions creating jobs, the aide said, a condition Boehner has said must be part of any plan extending the benefits. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to publicly discuss Boehner's comments.
On Thursday, senators from both parties said they had reached a roughly $10 billion compromise that would renew emergency jobless benefits that ended Dec. 28 and would be paid for by raising revenue. Coverage would be retroactive to Dec. 28 and would last for five months, meaning it would run through May.
The emergency benefits are for people who have exhausted their regular state unemployment coverage, which generally lasts 26 weeks. So far, just over 2 million people out of work for at least half a year are not getting emergency benefits because the program expired.
When the emergency program expired in late December, it fed a campaign-season competition over which party was best creating jobs and helping families still struggling to right themselves after the Great Recession of 2007-2009.
Democrats, backed by President Barack Obama, said opposition by most Republicans to extending the emergency benefits underscored GOP indifference to financially stressed Americans, while Republicans said they wanted an extension to be paid for and to improve federal job programs.
In December, Boehner said Republicans would consider extending emergency benefits "as long as it's paid for and as long as there are other efforts that will help get our economy moving once again."
Approval seems likely in the Democratic-run Senate after Congress returns from a weeklong recess in late March.
The measure will need 60 Senate votes to overcome Republican procedural tactics aimed at killing it. But with Democrats having 55 votes — including those of two usually supportive independents — supporters seemed to have a strong chance of reaching that threshold because five Republicans co-sponsored the announced deal.
They are Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada, Susan Collins of Maine, Rob Portman of Ohio, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mark Kirk of Illinois.
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A Minneapolis-based data scientist has taken the discussion of the potential misuse of license plate reader data to an entirely new level—he claims that he has determined the location of the city's two stationary license plate readers simply by studying a 90-day data set.
"Within three minutes of sending the e-mail to my contact at the Minneapolis Police Department Records Information Unit, my phone was ringing," Mark Pitts, who runs a local firm called Datalytics LLC, wrote Sunday on his company's blog. "And as long as the locations of the cameras remain confidential, I plan to keep them that way."
He detailed the technique to Ars, and as far as we can tell, it seems quite plausible. The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) declined to confirm or deny that the department had been in contact with Pitts, and it would not say whether the locations he found are accurate.
"We don't discuss security matters," Sgt. William Palmer, the department's public information officer, told Ars.
As we reported earlier this year, license plate readers are rapidly growingly around the country. High-speed optical character recognition can compare observed plates against a "hot list" of wanted vehicles at 60 plates per second, and these tools are creating millions of records nationwide every single day. Each record includes what plate was spotted, where and when. In some cases, such records are stored indefinitely.
In Minnesota, a rather liberal open records state law known as the Data Practices Act makes all government data public by default, which includes any license plate data. That means (for now) that anyone, from anywhere, can request the entire data set from any law enforcement agency.
Just last week, Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak, requested to a state committee that the data be immediately re-classified as "non-public." So far, Sgt. Palmer of the MPD did tell Ars that they have fulfilled nine requests for a 90-day LPR data set, sent by postal mail on a 4GB flash drive. In this case, the data covers August 30, 2012 through November 29, 2012.
2.1 million records in 90 days
Pitts requested and received the entire 90-day data set in late November. On Sunday, he posted animated videos of behavioral patterns that could be gleaned from the data and found some astonishing information about what an armada of just 10 LPRs can do over a 90-day period.
"In three months with just eight mobile readers and two stationary readers, the MPD collected over 2.1 million license plate reads," he noted. "Before releasing the data, the MPD deleted the GPS coordinates of data collected by the stationary hidden cameras to protect their locations. Of the 2.1 million reads, almost 1.3 million came from the two stationary cameras."
The Minneapolis data scientist also suggests that it would be difficult to track any one individual plate over time.
"Of the 2.1 million reads, there are just over 621,000 unique plate numbers in this data," he wrote.
"The majority of those, 360,000, were read only once. In fact, 530,000 were read four times or less in the three-month period. If we exclude the reads by the stationary cameras, which are not located any place you should worry about being seen or stalked, and we exclude police and other government plates, there are only about 8,000 unique plate numbers that have been tagged ten times or more in the three-month period. To track someone, you would typically need more hits to establish a pattern (unless you really got lucky). Only 75 plates have been hit 40 times or more by a mobile reader. While you could certainly use these data and a little luck to track and find a vehicle, I would estimate the risk to any single individual is very low."
Are your movements private?
Privacy experts have been impressed by the scope of Pitts' analysis.
"This study is a good demonstration not only of how much information is collected, but also how much additional information can be extracted through data analysis," Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, told Ars.
He and other privacy experts have consistently expressed concern over the use and potential misuse of such LPR data.
"How is this data being used internally?" Hartzog added. "Does the MPD plan to aggregate, store, and potentially release this data indefinitely? Is there any way for individuals to correct false positives? This study shows the utility of data transparency, which is one of the established fair information practices and allows individuals to verify and challenge data collection by the government."
Kade Crockford, the director of the Technology for Liberty program at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts, who has been following LPR deployments in her home state and nationwide for some time now, said that Pitts downplays the individual privacy implications.
"It's true that law enforcement will likely find all sorts of heretofore undiscovered uses for databases chock full of our travel history information, and this kind of long-term location tracking raises significant privacy and Fourth Amendment issues," she told Ars.
"Ultimately, the only way to prevent abuse against ordinary people or the police is to stop storing non-hit license plate data in the first place. Police should use it immediately (to find stolen cars, for example) or chuck it, and if they do that all of these problems go away—those that threaten the secrecy of police movements and the privacy of ordinary motorists alike."


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Growing number of parents turn to police to report cyberbullying
As more people become aware of the harmful consequences of cyberbullying, parents are more likely to report cyberbullying incidents directly to their local police than local school officials.
That's the finding of a new national survey of 642 American parents conducted by the Fraud Prevention and Investigations business unit of Thomson Reuters.
According to the survey, 36 percent of parents would turn to law enforcement first if they learned that their child was the victim of cyberbullying threats and attacks versus 29 percent of parents who said they would go to their local school officials.
One reason that parents may hesitate going to their local school officials is that 30 percent of parents surveyed didn't know if their child's school has a policy to address cyberbullying.
Cyberbullying is defined as bullying that takes place using electronic technology, according to stopbullying.gov, a website managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Cyberbullying can take many forms — hurtful messages or embarrassing photos posted on social media sites, harassing text messages and emails, and private information purposefully shared through text messages, email or through the Internet.
The issue has become a priority for parents surveyed, of which 50 percent indicated that they are very concerned about the rise in cyberbullying.
Today, more than 80 percent of teens use a cellphone regularly, making it the most common tool among cyber bullies, according to dosomething.org. The presence of teens on social media sites has only compounded the issue, blurring the lines between a schoolyard problem and a law enforcement concern.
In a related survey of U.S. law enforcement professionals conducted by Thomson Reuters in conjunction with PoliceOne.com, 48 percent of law enforcement agencies report that time spent investigating cyberbullying, bullying and school violence has dramatically increased over the past two years. Yet most law enforcement agencies feel ill-equipped to effectively investigate these cases, with 76 percent reporting that training to handle cyberbullying complaints has been insufficient.
While parents may trust law enforcement officials more than school officials with handling cyberbullying incidents involving their children, 68 percent of the law enforcement professionals surveyed said that they work to foster stronger relationships with school officials and/or principals to prevent or deter cyberbullying.
"Though cyberbullying is a challenging issue for students, parents, school officials and law enforcement, these statistics suggest that people want to work together to understand the issue, protect kids from cyberbullying, and help kids understand the serious consequences of participating in cyberbullying," says Jason Thomas, manager of Innovation for Thomson Reuters.
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Taking the Money for Grant(ed) – Part I
Update 03/22/2010: Part II now available
Two of the more dubious claims related to climate research funding are:
1) Scientists are getting rich from research grants!
2) Scientists holding an anti-AGW viewpoint cannot get funding!
The first question can be answered by asking another question:
How many climate scientists are driving a Mercedes sports coupe or other $100,000+ car into a three car garage in a posh gated neighborhood?
Not convinced? I will delve deeper into claim #1 later in this post and also in a future post (Part II).
The second question is easier to answer. There are a few publishing scientists that strongly disagree with the established consensus that humans are the primary drivers of modern climate change and yet they seem to find funding without much difficulty. These include, among others, Dr. Richard S. Lindzen (MIT), Dr. John R. Christy (UAH), Dr. Roy Spencer (UAH/NASA), and Dr. William M. Gray (CSU). Wikipedia hosts a list of others and many of those scientists appear to be funded.
Fossil fuel companies such as ExxonMobil stand to lose revenue if carbon emissions are restricted so they certainly would dole out money to any scientist that was working on a landmark anti-AGW paper. Over the years, ExxonMobil alone has kicked in millions and millions of dollars to deny the science. Surely a company that showed a net profit of $45 billion in 2008 has a few dollars to spend on real anti-AGW research that has a much higher credibility rating than the anti-science information campaign that they have bankrolled since the mid-1990s.
Claim #2 is just plain nonsense!
Getting back to claim #1. Are scientists getting rich from grant funding? I will use myself as a case study in this post and, in Part II, I will write about others' experiences.
I recall a lecture I gave on climate change back in April 2009. After I was finished, a gentleman told me that he though the whole thing was a hoax so that we scientists could get rich from funding. Before I even had a chance to reply, a voice from the crowd (my wife) yelled out, "Trust me, I can tell you, he isn't making any money from this. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Nothing!" The truth hurts, doesn't it?
I am currently listed as a co-investigator (co-I) on a NASA grant proposal that is to be submitted this month. The principal investigator (PI) is a colleague of mine who I will call Prof. X and the grant budget is requesting $437,232.67 over a three year period. Funding from the proposal will be used to create a learning institute to educate secondary education teachers about climate change. These teachers will be trained to use climate data from NASA in order to incorporate the latest climate change science and data into their curricula. Essentially, NASA will be using some of its funds so that our children will become more informed.
Assuming the grant is approved, it would be easy for somebody doing a cursory scan of NASA grants to shout out that "Prof. X received a grant for $437,232. He is getting rich from research funding! No wonder he claims that humans are causing global warming. He is in it for the money!" Sound familiar? It is often the case where a climate scientist receives a large grant and then there are cries of outrage from those that have no idea of how the money gets spent.
Here is how the $437,232,67 from my grant will be spent over three years:
- Participant/Trainee Support Costs = $152,678.50 (135 teachers will participate over three years)
- Consulting Services = $4000 (To assess the curricula developed)
- Indirect Costs: $76,064.25 (Administrative fees and other fees that are not collected by those named on the grant)
- Direct Labor = $204,489.92
$204,489.92 is what the investigators on the grant are paid over three years. There are six (6) of us working on this grant. Three of us, including the PI, will receive the majority of that amount. I will receive $48,264.75 over three years ($16,088.25 per year). The PI will receive $49,175.31 over three years.
Imagine that! What appeared to be a grant for Prof. X for $437,232.67 really nets him $16,391.77 per year.
But, even that is very misleading. At Suffolk County Community College (SCCC) and many other institutions, grant money can only REPLACE teaching load. Grant money does not add to our salaries. For me, $16,088.25 per year equates to 11.8 credit hours of overload teaching. (Overload hours are those that go above the base salary of fifteen credit hours per semester. I typically teach 20 overload hours per year which is four classes.) Rounding to 12 hours, I will give up 2.5 classes per year in order to participate in this grant endeavor.
Bottom line: If the grant proposal is accepted, my W-2 will not change for year 2010. Instead of all of my salary coming from SCCC, most will come from SCCC and some will come from NASA.
Unfortunately, the Mercedes will have to wait a little longer.
Claim #1 is also nonsense! (Too bad for me.)
Part II will examine how grant budgets work at other institutions. Feel free to comment on this post and let me know about your grant experiences.
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Exactly right! And good for using a real-world example. I work with contracts awarded by NIH and it's similar in that world, although instead of teaching offsets, an investigator is just required to have varying levels of his or her salary come from grants or contracts. The salary level remains fixed, but the university's contribution is adjusted according to the outside support.
I am just amazed that this charge is made in the first place.
Thank you for this answer to the common denialist myth. I've not seen any other response from a scientist to the baseless accusations of profit for AGW research.
Scott, in Australia, scientists are not 'in it for the money'.
ARC grants in Australia are quite prestigious and mostly go to Universities and government research institutions. There are various categories of grants. This page lists the salaries:
ARC grants are probably at the more generous end of the scale to grants from other funding bodies, such as industry research funding bodies.
As you can see, the salaries are not exhorbitant by any stretch of the imagination and are often/generally below the salaries paid to scientists in government funded positions and private corporations. I don't have a list of comparable salaries paid by government agencies, but job advertisements or public sector/university websites in Australia might be used for comparison.
In Australia, research grants are never paid in addition to normal salary. They are only paid to fund extra positions required for the research, or to fund equipment and sometimes facilities or other capital items.
Government research institutions do not normally permit scientists to earn money outside their salary from work-related activities and most grants are for equipment and additional temporary staff.
Universities used to allow staff to earn extra funding from private activities such as consulting, but most these days either limit personal earnings from such activity or prohibit it. In any case, it has no relationship to research grants.
Hope this helps.
This is very helpful. Thank you. I assume that because it is posted here you are ok with me using this info in my upcoming Part II? Just let me know via email if you want any of this revised.
Hi Scott, Very nice article. This site might give you some usable info:
The increase of spending and number of lobbyists re climate on the fossil fuel side is indicative. There may be other sites on this but I have not had time to delve more.
I've argued similarly that scientists really don't get raises when they get funding, rather it goes to research, equipment, expenses, travel, etc.
Heck, I'm still waiting to get rich on climate. I can't understand it? Not one single penny have I made to date on global warming. This is very disappointing.
I'm sure Al Gore is getting rich either. Still awaiting one solid piece of evidence that mankind causes global warming. The earth has warmed and cooled innumberable times over millions of years without industry to blame it on. Cycles are just that…cycles. I think you gents should take solar activity more into you contrived computer models.
I'm really glad to know that MR Pachauri and Mr Gore aren't making any more out of AGW….just for a moment I thought there might be a problem…..
Seriously…where are these accusations that scientists are making shedloads of money being made? I read the blogs and can't remember seeing one.
I can only assume you've just begun to read the blogs; I hear this preposterous claim made constantly, and very little response to it. I'm happy to have found this site.
Of course, AGW deniers have to come up with a reason as to why nearly all earth scientists would conspire to deceive humanity, and the idea of a "gravy train" of lavish grant funding is the best they could come up with. It is a constant refrain. Below is yet one more article making that claim, the link having been sent to me by my sole AGW denier friend.
Yes, at academic institutions, salaries are set by the institution. A grant saves the university money, but it does not put money in my pocket. It may help me indirectly–getting grants is good for advancement, which will move me into a higher salary scale, but academic salaries top out at levels that are decent, but still modest compared to what say, corporate executives or lawyers make. Nobody gets wealthy off of grants. Converting grant money to personal use is not easy to do even if you are dishonest, because as far as the university is concerned, that money belongs to them, not you, and you are only administrating it. So they keep pretty close track of where the dollars go. Perhaps you can winkle a couple of meeting junkets a year, or a better computer than you would be able to afford otherwise, but that's about it. Scientists who are wealthy have made their money from patents, or consulting, or they started a successful company.
Now this is not to say that science is not a pretty sweet gig. It is, after all, a job in which you can receive a moderately decent salary for doing what you enjoy doing, which is more than most people get. Yes, there are many jobs that pay better, but few of them are as much fun. But what is it that scientists enjoy? Making real discoveries. Knowing something new about nature for the first time. Fabricating fake research sounds like no fun at all. And besides, if you are going to conduct a fraud, science is still not a very lucrative field in which to do it–you'd do a lot better setting up a Ponzi scheme, or starting a company based on a fake discovery. Or becoming a critic of global warming. After all, there are many wealthy interests who may be harmed by CO2 reduction efforts, and who might be willing to pay you to cast doubt on global warming. And if you do it outside of an academic institution, you don't have to worry about academic salary scales, or institutional auditors keeping track of how you spend your money. The sky's the limit. Now *that* might be lucrative enough to compensate you for the annoying work of concocting and maintaining a fraud!
Stirling English: "Seriously…where are these accusations that scientists are making shedloads of money being made? I read the blogs and can't remember seeing one."
When is all of the credibility left in science going to be sacrificed at the alter of the AGW hoax? Credibility is not a renewable resource, regardless how much grant money they shovel your way.
Climate science is full of $ceintific $uper $tars if grant money is the measure of a scientist.
Meanwhile the scientists whored-out science itself to keep the grant money coming in. It was a match made in heaven and this synergism worked very well for 15 years until Nov 21, 2009.
For all the grant funding funneled thru UEA, they should expect a top flight organized operation.
Look at Mann-$4500,000 grant just rewarded.
The Climate Research Unit at East Anglia had profited to the tune of at least $20 million in "research" grants from the Team's activities.
Hey, will someone give me a research grant for a study of forest fires upwind of Mann's tree-ring site? I hypothesize that the increased temps, carbon dioxide, and ash (fertilizer) from large enough fires would have impacted the width of the rings. Surely there must have been some over the last thousand years. A grant of, say $2 million would allow my co-researchers and me to meet in Tahiti to discuss the project, and pay someone in Russia to undertake the work. Thanks for your support!
These rock star scientists dined with the elite and feasted on government grants
This is a situation where the "high priests" of Global Baloney WILL NEVER admit to being wrong — too much is at stake for them: Grants, professional pride, and world-view.
The latest example of this is a $500,000 grant to Michael Mann, Professor at Penn State University and unintended co-star of the ClimateGate e-mail scandal.
I guess this means they don't want a AGW 'grant' cookie?
Science, schmience. There's grants that need gettin'.
This isn't science, it's grant farming.
their 'go-to' click of agw scientists like Michael Mann feeding at the trough of public grant money,
Also, that grant funding is only what went to CRU over the years [a quick scan shows well over $4 million paid to Phil Jones and pals in just the last reported year].
What should be deeply worrying to the scientific community is that they've allowed climate science to become noble cause corrupted by monied interests. Some serious retrospection is needed.
–Anthony Watts
That's a quick look at one blog using the search words 'grant' and 'mann'.
What was your post about?
I thought you were linking to claimed proofs of these shedloads of money climate scientists are making off AGW? You shared 13 links, and not one of them offers up what you promised: that is some claims/proof of the oodles of money scientists were raking in!
#5 had nothing about Mann's 4.5mil – though it did bitch about more grant money going to studying the Himalayan glaciers – what's wrong with that? Or do you suggest ignoring what's happening up those valleys?
#6 come on man, gag me with a spoon – Lord Monckton the serial liar extraordinar, this is who you consider a reliable source? I thought you were "sceptical." Besides nothing about money there either, just hawking his "ClimateGate – caught green handed" SPPI garbage.
#8 has nothing about Mann's .5mil, rather it's about last years cold snap in Florida proving AGW is a hoax
If you claim you have proof, shouldn't you at least offer links that have to do with what you're claiming to prove?
Or was this just sarcastic humor that went over my head?
Although it was interesting reviewing Mr.WUWT's website again, it is an amazing bit of political theater and attack smoke'n mirror… same as it ever was.
Peter, jb was just cataloguing a few to answer Stirling English's question ….
"where are these -accusations- that scientists are making shedloads of money being made? I read the blogs and can't remember seeing one."
Plenty of accusations, but as you note, not one of them offers any proof about the oodles of money apparently floating in the air around these *rich* scientists.
Hi Scott,
I'd like to translate the skeptics' megaphone blasts into a concern that they haven't articulated, but certainly feel, and should be relevant to this discussion.
Running an academic research department succesfully requires a more or less constant search for funding. Research 'themes' are broadly mapped out by funding organisations, such as the EU frameworks and NSF papers.
If you had the patience to trawl through the skeptic weblogs, you would find a number of commenters who claim to be researchers who have said that they rewrote grant proposals to include climate change as part of their study (obviously it's possible that the same commenter dropped the comment on various weblogs, but it doesn't seem that way), and others have remarked that the establishment frame of reference acts to intimidate researchers who are (scientifically) skeptical about certain lines of work while rewarding those who toe the line.
At the time, nobody was thinking that scientists would get rich this way. The thinking was that it kept a stream of funding going that insured employment.
I don't think some skeptics have thought this through very carefully–even in business people distinguish between revenue and profit–and I think their reaction after reading your 'case study' would be 'Oh. Yeah. I guess that's right.'
Good luck with your search for more evidence.
Scott, me and you must be living on separate planets. I worked in climate change over 30 years ago. Many people told me that I could have a nice career if I got on the right side of AGW, meaning to support it. I'm unemployed. Last week I had an interview to be a sabbatical replacement. The salary was 40,000. When AGW came up, I lied about what I really believed. I need that job.
Michael Mann gets $160,000/yr to make up numbers. He gets a travel and expense account on top of that. If you don't think that's rich, you have it too good.
Both claims that you are challenging are true from my point of view.
The few "skeptics" who are making money are simply political hacks cultivating a wedge issue.
Scott, Try this. Go to a local public research university. Find the faculty parking lot. Drive around and count the Mercedes and other luxury cars. Count the fuel efficient economy cars. That should give you a good idea of what is really happening.
I drive a Chevrolet Aveo with 140,000 miles on it.
"…Find the faculty parking lot…"
Actually, that's not a bad idea. You could send an email to each faculty asking their members what car they drive and how old it is, or if they use public transport, bicycles, motorbikes, etc.
Fight memes with facts.
I went to graduate school for six years, making on average $18,000 a year. I did a two year post doc, making a decent salary, but not rich by any means. And you know what-I'm not complaining because I get to work at something I love. But the idea that I would go into this field (instead of finance, business, law, medicine) because I wanted to get rich is just simply ludicrous.
As for some scientists getting blackballed: Pielke(s), Lindzen, Christy, Spencer, Singer are all quite gainfully employed or emeritus.
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I am pleased to see this blog, having been directed here from ClimateSight. My research is on the geological record of climate change, and my research is funded under both the Australian Research Council (ARC), and now in Canada by NSERC. Another poster has described how things work in Australia / ARC (and I agree with the description), so I'll stick to talking about NSERC and Canada.
NSERC won't pay my salary and won't even buy out my teaching. I can buy equipment, pay for travel for research and attending conferences, and pay salaries to graduate students and other research personnel. I can't use grant funds for sabbaitical travel or living costs. Any items I buy remain the property of my university.
I haven't had someone at a presentation accuse me of lining my pockets, but I teach environmental science at Brandon University (Manitoba), and climate change is always a topic in my senior class. I have had undergraduates in class make the point 'Climate change researchers are doing the research so they can get big grants to spend on themselves'. I refute this using my own circumstance, but I think examples from other scientists whose research is more in the 'front line' of AGW than mine is more instructive.
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This claim always struck me as ludicrous. I've never taught, but I recall that no one in the science departments at UT were pulling down lavish paychecks. Now, with coaches it's a different story.
Thanks for laying out the matter so clearly and succinctly.
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Tencent, the Chinese Internet which has long been criticized for its closeness held a grand "Tencent Partnership Conference", Pony Ma, founder and CEO of Tencent said in the conference that "the more successful our partners are, the more successful our open platform will be." Tencent generates RMB 20 billion (US$ 3 billion) in revenue in a year, Ma said, and the company was hoping to recreate a new Tencent by helping its partners earning exact the same sum.
And the company that uses penguin as its mascot is not the only one decided to do so in the past year. Baidu, Taobao, Shanda, Amazon, Dangdang, Joyo(Amazon China), Kaixin001, NetEase, 51, Sohu, Youku, Douban, Renren and so on all launched their own open platform solutions.Baidu even pushed the open wave further to mobile front by launching a mobile box computing service.
On the other hand, Joyo, the Chinese subsidiary of Amazon debut its ecommerce platform in mid-July that allows anyone qualified to operate an independent online shop on its website leveraging Amazon China's traffic, branding, warehouses as well as logistic service for a fee.
Clones that paying tributes to their American counterparts are thriving in nearly territories here. To name a few, in group buying we have Meituan, Lashou, in lightblogging there're Diandian, Tuita, in Airbnb we have Mayi and Youtx, in Pinterest we have Huaban, Markzhi and so on, nearly every newly popped up service are expected to find its siblings here in no more than 6 months after its founding in the States.
To some entrepreneurs, copying is another word of innovation, they copy and then adapt them into Chinese environment with minor adjustments. That's the so called micro innovation.
The success of Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine inspired its Chinese peers to hack out their own cloud computing service that let 3rd parties have access to their mighty computing power.
Sina, Alibaba and Shanda all have their own either private or public cloud computing initiatives targeting SMEs through which you can distribute your contents, launch your websites, store your files and more. Some features offered by them like high-performance computing, flexible pricing model, easy-scaling capability, load balancing and so forth
At the same time, consumer-oriented cloud service like Tencent/Sogou cloud input method and Xunlei Cloud VOD are all living examples of disruptively employing cloud-based service in consumer-centric Internet products.
Dangdang fought with 360buy in the price war over books and 3C products, over and over again. In earlier March, 360buy announced to making no profit in book selling business in the coming 5 years to compete with Dangdang, couple months after, NYSE-listed company initiated a price war competing with 360buy dubbed "Operation Decapitation" in 3C categories in September.
Qihoo, Kingsoft and 360 were also constantly in fight status that they kinda slapped each other on and off. You asserted I'm stealing user privacy, then I'm bitting you back claiming you're malware. Just calm down big fellas.
It was both the best and worst times to be an entrepreneur in China as more Chinese cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Shenzhen were seeing bootstrap startups springing up, more and more VC and hot money flowing into the market and lots of tech-centric incubators emerged upon the scene, on the other hand, ferocious, endless competition caused by market mania and investment spree is stifling.
It was both the age of wisdom and foolishness since new technologies and business models are quickly and adequately adapting to China, coding languages, tools, frameworks and philosophies like Python, jQuery, Github, NoSQL, Rails, DRY (don't repeat yourself) and DRW (don't reinvent the wheels) equipped Chinese coder with latest Valley practice to help them gear up for the startup wave; meanwhile, encouraged and single-minded entrepreneurs jumped into crowded red sea like group buying , liteblogging and the latest Pinterest fever. VCs splashed money into startups in hopes of a 10% chance that one of their portfolio companies might make it – to go public or be acquired for a fruitful exit.
Deng Xiaoping reflected in 1987 on the first eight years of China's economic reforms saying that "all sorts of small enterprises boomed in the countryside, as if a strange army appeared suddenly from nowhere." It is these startup firms drove China's reform momentum. Now it is the rise of those new startup firms founded by spontaneous entrepreneurs to drive China's innovation momentum and to serve as the major source of the Middle Kingdom's growth. Some may even argue that the success or failure of a transition ecomony like China's can be traced in large part to the performance of its entrepreneurs. And finger crossed they don't fail us.
To sum it up, no matter how bad these negative situations are, it still might be the best time to start one's own business in China as the spontaneous entrepreneurship and innovative thinking in the vast land of China motivated many to craft their products and to solve a problem. At the end of the day, As many Chinese founders stumbled along the path set by thorns, feeling the chill of winter and suffering from the hopelessness and despair, it's the only entrepreneurial spirit that sparks in the long night to guide them through the journey, and inspire them to move on to probably a better time in 2012.


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Harry Reems dies; 'Deep Throat' actor was 65
Harry Reems, the male star of the 1972 cultural phenomenon "Deep Throat," which brought pornography to mainstream audiences, has died at age 65.
Reems died Tuesday afternoon at the veterans' hospital in Salt Lake City, his wife, Jeanne Sterrett Reems said Wednesday. Doctors haven't determined his cause of death but Reems had multiple health issues, including pancreatic cancer, his wife said.
Reems became famous for his role in the adult-film classic "Deep Throat," which drew middle class audiences to the theater and became a forerunner of today's hardcore adult-entertainment industry.
The film later served as the nickname for a source that helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein investigate the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Reems was born in in New York in 1947 as Herbert Streicher. He served in the U.S. Marines before he ended up in the entertainment industry in the 1970s. He aspired to become a serious actor but was thrown in front of the camera while working on the production crew for "Deep Throat."
At the 2005 premiere of a documentary about "Deep Throat" at the Sundance Film Festival, Reems told The Associated Press that the film was the first to "drop any pretense that it had educational value."
"There was no socially redeeming value, and so the word of mouth went out from people who saw it saying 'This is just a comedy. It's great. You've got to see this,'" Reems said.
When the original male lead didn't work out, Reems, the lighting director, stepped in. He played a doctor helping a patient, played by Linda Lovelace, with a sexually sensitive area at the back of her throat. Lovelace died in 2002.
The movie, an unlikely box-office sensation, became a touchstone for obscenity laws and a target for anti-smut activists.
In 1976, Reems was convicted of obscenity for his role in the film and faced a potential five-year prison term. Celebrities including Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty came to Reems' defense, and the conviction was overturned.
After "Deep Throat," he went on to star in dozens of adult films, including "The Devil in Miss Jones."
"He hated, at the end, doing porn," Jeanne Reems said. "It was all he could make money doing."
In the 1980s, he left the porn industry and moved to Park City, Utah, where he eventually became a real-estate agent.
In 1989, a judge placed Reems on five years' probation and ordered him to pay back taxes after pleading guilty to failing to pay income tax on $35,000 in movie earnings. The court also ordered Reems to undergo an alcohol detoxification program and undergo psychological counseling.
In a 2006 interview with the Deseret News, Reems described his battles with alcohol and how his life transformed after he became sober.
"I literally should be dead. I know a lot of people who drank a lot less than me, and they are dead," Reems said. "God has left me on this Earth for a reason, and I think it's to save lives."
Reems said the public life he had led was his "downfall."
He married Jeanne in 1990, the first and only marriage for both.
"He was very romantic and a great husband," she said.
Family friend Don Schenk, who knew Reems for 20 years, described him as a "nice guy," a great salesman and an avid golfer and skier.
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Reems struggled with multiple health problems in his final years and was hospitalized on March 5. His health problems kept him at home in recent years and he went through chemotherapy earlier this year for early stage pancreatic cancer.
"His last year or so was really, really hard," Jeanne Reems said.
Besides his wife, Reems is survived a brother. He had no children.


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After an interview at Battery Park on Tuesday the day after for ABC News 20/20 Special "The Perfect Storm", I went on a walk to see the aftermath of Sandy's visit to lower Manhattan. My tour took me from Battery Park through the Financial District and then onward to South Street Seaport.
The Financial District was a chorus of pumps and generators, lacking power but replete with water.
"High water marks" such as those shown above will be valuable as we move to improve our storm surge model so that it can predict flooding within the city streets, for forecasts as well as for risk assessment.
Literally thousands of cars were flooded with seawater in the storm, including large lots full of new cars at the Port of Newark/Elizabeth.
Incidentally, we all have a new appreciation for neighborhood names, such as those with "lower", "bay" and "seaport", versus "heights" and "upper", and for that matter "Canal Street".
With layers of expansion into East River over NYC's history, the original waterfront street, Pearl Street (initially called "Queen Street"), is actually three blocks inland and was relatively dry. However, landfill was used to extend the neighborhood seaward, and Pearl Street has been superceded by Front Street, and then by Water Street, and then seaward of that by South Street / FDR Drive and the modern-day waterfront park promenade. Landfill compresses with time, so it is a downhill path from the seawalls down into this area, and these streets were temporarily re-claimed by the hungry East River during Sandy's sojourn.


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Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson Stands By Anti-Gay Remarks; Cracker Barrel Caves
Phil Robertson is refusing to backpedal on anti-gay comments he made that were published in GQ magazine last week. The Duck Dynasty star led a Bible study over the weekend at his church in Louisiana and told church-goers: "I will not give or back off from my path," according to Britain's Daily Mail.
A&E has suspended Robertson indefinitely from Duck Dynasty; however, the Robertson family has defended its patriarch, saying Phil was only quoting the Bible in remarks he made to GQ. Fans of the show have also rushed to Robertson's defense, even starting an online petition to have him return to the reality show.
Phil Robertson spews anti-gay comments in GQ interview
Robertson issued an apology for the remarks, but appeared to stand by them during his weekend lecture. "Sexual sins are numerous and many," he told attendees, as reported by the Daily Mail. "So what is your safest course of action? If you're a man, find yourself a woman, marry them and keep your sex right there. ... Common sense says we are not going to procreate the human race unless we have a man and a woman. From the beginning Jesus said, 'It is a man and a woman.' Adam was made and Eve was made for this reason. ... That's what marriage is all about."
Duck Dynasty fans launch petition to bring Phil Robertson back
The Cracker Barrel restaurant chain initially responded to the controversy by pulling Duck Dynasty merchandise from its shelves, but reversed the decision over the weekend after facing backlash from customers. "You told us we made a mistake," the company wrote in a statement. "You flat out told us we were wrong. Today, we are putting all our Duck Dynasty products back in our stores. And, we apologize for offending you."
At the Bible study on Sunday, Robertson said of the interview: "I didn't think much of it at all, but it seems a lot of other people did." He added: "I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater."
What's your take on the controversy?
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The Ionia girls basketball team played on its home floor for the first time since Dec. 18 Friday night and came away with a 40-35 win over Owosso.
Taylor Bovee paced the Bulldogs with a game-high 17 points and six steal, while Sarah Swartz finished with seven points, seven rebounds and five steals.
Amanda Leftwich and Chelsea Michalec led the Trojans with 12 points each.
As a team, the Lady Dawgs struggled at the free-throw line, making 11 of 28 attempts.
Ionia coach Andy Barr said he was happy to get the win, but his players need to play as more of a cohesive unit than they did Friday night.
"I am happy to get the win and happy to be 6-4 halfway through the season, but we are still trying to find ourselves as a team," he said. "I think tonight we had some strong individual performances and the girls played well enough individually to win, but we aren't going to win against tougher teams if we don't play well as a team."
After Michalec hit a 3-pointer to open the game, the Lady Dawgs went on an 8-0 run and took an 8-6 lead after the first quarter. Both teams scored 13 points each in the second and Ionia hung on to a 21-19 advantage at the break.
Owosso was able to take the lead with 5:30 left in the third at 22-21. The Trojans held the Bulldogs to one point through almost six minutes of the quarter, extending their advantage to 26-21 before Ionia ended the quarter with a 6-0 run to take a 27-26 lead.
With Ionia up 37-27, Leftwich scored on back to back 3-pointers to pull Owosso back to within four, but the Lady Dawgs were able to hang on for the five-point victory.
Ionia (6-4, 3-2 in CAAC Red) will play host to Lansing Catholic on Tuesday night.


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Kathleen Parker: Dissecting Hillary
?No matter what Barack Obama does, he cannot escape the shadow of his former political opponent.
Hillary Clinton, back from her global travels visiting places and peoples hardly heard of on this continent, is stealing the spotlight without even touching the stage.
President Obama visits the Middle East, makes history as he speaks war to Syria and Iran, and peace to Israelis and Palestinians, and the talk back home circles The Big Question: Will Hillary run?
The former first lady, the former senator and now the former secretary of state is everywhere -- and nowhere to be seen. Sent away by this president upon his unlikely victory in 2008 against the Clinton machine and the inevitable first woman president, Hillary is back.
Few people -- and far fewer women -- have attracted so much attention as Hillary Clinton. She carries the unique burden of being something to everyone: Loved, despised, admired, feared, a role model, a terrifying omen, politician, mother, wife, nemesis, scold, muse. She is a conundrum of one.
And she is running for president. Isn't she?
No sooner did Obama raise his right hand to begin his second term than the whispers began. This is true for Washington, at least, if nowhere else. With Clinton out of the public eye for the first time since she and her husband occupied the Arkansas governor's mansion, all eyes turned to find her.
Whether to run again for the highest office is surely on Hillary's mind -- searing and torturous. It was always THE question. Her inevitability is legend. The erstwhile valedictorian who became the wife of Bill Clinton was bound for her own glory, in her own time, eventually.
Then came the most unexpected thing of all -- this man Obama, this deus ex machina who descended from some distant star to blind the masses with his light. His destiny, alas, was greater than hers and so, once again, Hillary had to wait.
Will she go for it again? Will she seize her destiny? Or is it her fate to fade into the pages of missed opportunities, bad timing and broken promises?
I've asked a half-dozen close Clinton associates if she's running and they all say the same thing: "I have no idea." I suspect this is true and that Hillary doesn't really know. Except that she does know, and all her colleagues really do know, and we all know. Really, don't we? How does Hillary Clinton walk away from the job that was meant to be hers? Forget fate. What about duty? Doesn't the first woman who has a real shot at becoming president of the United States have a duty to run? And win?
It would be exhausting. Time wears us down and Hillary would be 69 in 2016. The past four years have been brutal and she shows the effects of constant travel, immense pressure and a rather noble lack of attention to her vanities. A presidential campaign, though more familiar, would be worse. So much engagement, so many bad meals, a terrible pace for anyone of any age, but especially for a woman who may be musing about grandchildren and doting.
Then again, Hillary is no cookie baker, as we know. And the timing, finally, is right. Her popularity is at its highest level ever. She is admired around the world. She has earned her chops not by inheritance (married to Bill) but through her own sweat and, yes, tears. She has managed through hard work and quiet rectitude to erase most memories of her earlier years as first lady and of the woman who did, indeed, stand by her man when most wouldn't.
Not incidentally, the women's vote is hers. Even Republican women would find it hard not to cast a ballot for Hillary. If not her, then who? And when? The Republican bench may be full, but, with the exception of Jeb Bush, it seems full of vice presidents rather than presidents. A Bush-Clinton contest might drive the country into dynastic delirium, but there would be a certain poetic symmetry: Finally the right Bush and the right Clinton.
Clearly, the Hillary Clinton for president proposition poses more questions than answers. But the calculus comes down to this: She has been working toward this moment essentially all her life, diligently clearing away the brush blocking her path. The zeitgeist is ready for a woman president. Most important, she can win -- and few think the country would be worse for it.
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EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama is getting off the island.
In a rare move for him, the president planned a break in the middle of his Martha's Vineyard vacation to return to Washington on Sunday night for unspecified meetings with Vice President Joe Biden and other advisers.
The White House has been cagey about why the president needs to be back in Washington for those discussions.
Part of the decision appears aimed at countering criticism that Obama is spending two weeks on a resort island in the midst of so many foreign and domestic crises.
Yet those crises turned the first week of Obama's vacation into a working holiday. He made on-camera statements on U.S. military action in Iraq and the clashes between police and protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. He called foreign leaders to discuss the tensions between Ukraine and Russia, as well as between Israel and Hamas.
"I think it's fair to say there are, of course, ongoing complicated situations in the world, and that's why you've seen the president stay engaged," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.
Obama is scheduled to return to Martha's Vineyard on Tuesday and stay through next weekend.
Even though work has occupied much of Obama's first week on vacation, he still found plenty of time to golf, go to the beach with his family and go out to dinner on the island.
He also attended a birthday party for Democratic adviser Vernon Jordan's wife, where he spent time with former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
That get-together between the former rivals-turned-partners added another complicated dynamic to Obama's vacation. Just as Obama was arriving on Martha's Vineyard, an interview with the former secretary of state was published in which she levied some of her sharpest criticism of Obama's foreign policy.
Clinton later promised she and Obama would "hug it out" when they saw each other at Jordan's party. No reporters were allowed in, so it's not clear whether there was any hugging, but the White House said the president danced to nearly every song.
Obama heads back to DC in rare vacation break
EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama is getting off the island.
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WASHINGTON » It'll cost another penny to mail a letter next year.
The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service said today that it will raise postage rates on Jan. 27, including a 1-cent increase in the cost of first-class mail to 46 cents.
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